Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Strawberries Are For Lovers

{Three Years In}

My favorite early summer dessert, hands-down, is rustic strawberry shortcake: balsamic strawberries with buttermilk drop biscuits and bourbon whipped cream. We had it at our wedding. I gave you the recipe. It's easy, it's always a crowd-pleaser, and it is just so. damn. good.

But with a bumper crop of particularly sweet strawberries in the garden this year we can't bear to gild the lily, so right now we're just hulling them and serving them as-is with P's whipped cream. Perfection. Today's our third year wedding anniversary (three years already?!) so tonight we'll be eating strawberries, counting blessings. Every day with him is the new best day of my life. True fact.

Wonderful post. Happy anniversary to you two lovelies! Hopefully life will send that feeling to me one day. Awaking with my best friend, looking forward to adventures, old age and a bond that only grows stronger with each breath.

happy smasnniversary, ma choue! to think, 3 years ago i was in the hay field in a poppy colored dress watching you get hitched in yer cowgirl boots! so happy for you and P. you are a great example as how mawwiage should be and i love you both! xo

Flag waving, Happy Anniversary. How appropriate for you two to wed in June, on Flag Day, of all things. Mine was on a Friday the 13th, to my still bestest friend of all ages, 27 years ago on a steamy, rainbow rain soaked July evening in the Mojave Desert. True dreams be still your heart. Luscious berries are for lovers.

This is such an impressive strawberry haul. My leggy little plants have only produced one berry, and the cat bit off the stem it was growing on before it could fully develop.And I love the idea of balsamic strawberry shortcake at a wedding--a delicious and earthy dessert for such an occasion, not too fancy and ridiculous.